7th Pay Commission: Govt flip-flop on EPF emboldens employees to strike work, get higher pay

7th Pay Commission: Govt flip-flop on EPF emboldens employees to strike work, get higher pay

New Delhi: The flip-flops by Union government on the revised EPF withdrawal norms may embolden government employees to strike work on July 11 as a means to get higher wages and allowances under 7th Pay Commission.

First, under the public outlash, the government withdrew the budgetary proposal to make 40 percent of the EPF corpus taxable. Now, under the protest of garment factory workers in the Bangluru area, central government again withdrew its February 10 notification which prevented an employee from withdrawing 100 percent of the EPF corpus before the age of 58 years.

“This labour movement of the garment workers of Karnataka state is an eye-opener for all the other working class in the entire country,”said PS Prasad, Secretary General, Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers Karnataka State.

Referring to the protest of thousands of garment factory workers in Bangluru against the February 10 notification on April 18 and 19, which turned violent and threw life out of gear in the city, Prasad added, it was high time to prepare for 11th July strike under the banner of National Joint Council of Action of central government employees.

“If the Central Government employees also participate in trade union action against the retrograde recommendations of the VII CPC similar to the Garment Workers of Karnataka, we too can get similar results and hope for a better wage revision and a decent wage hike”, said Prasad in a post on the union’s portal. 

Read at: Zee News